What an adventure i have just been on..............................Having left Sydney 2 weeks ago (after a particularly hardcore St Patrick's day Landsdowne Lunch celebration all-dayer) I arrived in Adelaide and had the pleasure of staying with Nicola's friends Bree and Brad. On my 1st evening we went to small town pub to watch Bree sing with her band-unfortunately we seemed to be the only people with a full set of teeth and clothes made in this century but had a v.fun night especially thanks to happy hour! Moving on a few days later we hit the city of Melbourne again and this time stayed with the fabulous Claire and her family for the week which was such a treat, especially all the yummy Italian, freshly made home cooked food and cakes!! While in federaion square i bumped into the Oz swimming team and got all their autographs (i went to the school of cool!) and also saw some of the British swimming team training while working hard on my tan by the side of the pool in Fitzroy. A few days later we were at the wolrd swimming championships and managed to fluke the best seats in the house (as the speakers were in our cheapo seats) and low and behold old Ian Thorpe comes and sists 3 seats away from us-everyone was going crazy for him (he is like the David Beckham of Oz) but we were the lucky ones he wanted a peice of, ha ha! We also dined at Jamie Oliver's fifteen restaurant and caught up with lots of friends from Thailand/Sydney which was great! Onto Central Australia and Alice Springs we went where the adventure began, a 3 day trip of hiking and camping in the desert, in the middle of no-where with just a glorified sleeping bag (swag) and a campire-it was initially a bit of a struggle to get 'princess chloe' off the minibus-due to the freezing tempratures and the thousands of snakes, spiders and creatures which were waiting to crawl on my face but well worth it in the end as we fell asleep and awoke (at 5am otherwise known as stupid o'clock) looking at millions of stars in th sky! The trip didn't get off to the best of starts as we had torrential rain-surely i am the only person that can come to the desert and be freezing and get floods of rain-the saying 'I've never seen this much rain' kept floating around to our 'joy' but eventually it did subside and enabled us to see Uluru (Ayers Rock) at sunset and sunrise which was amazing. We did a couple of hikes around Kings Canyon and around the Olga's so by the time we returned having no shower available we truly smelt of roses!!mmmmm I have now moved onto Perth and enjopying the sunshine once again...... P.s A Doctor phoned me from Sydney hospital to say that they had re-reviewed my x-rays and confirming i definately fractured my 9th rib and checking i was ok-can't imagine that ever happening in England, very impressed!! P.p.s No photos this time as in the middle of Kings Canyon my memopry card was full so tried to delete a couple of photos but made the HUGE mistake of deleting everything on my memory card-i may of screamed and almost cried at the time.......thankfully Nicola has quite a few of the same so as soon as they are on CD will send some accross!